Singer Holds Palestinian Flag During Opera Curtain Call: A Political Violation of Art?
Claiming political impartiality in relation to a Verdi opera is like calling Guernica a painting of a horse. - London Review of Books
Music Of The New Avant Garde: …Bagpipes?
“When I was sixteen or seventeen, and getting into the adult category, I started trying to play different repertoire,” she said. “I’d get instantly...
Netflix Is Using Generative AI To Make Movies. It’s A Fundamental Shift
Netflix’s generative AI approach marks a fundamental shift. Instead of building digital scenes piece by piece, artists simply describe what they want and algorithms...
How Technology (Dating Apps Anyone?) Lessens The Power Of Relationships
When technology mediates contact, this can strengthen familiar forms of scepticism about love – for example, about whether or not the other person is...
Was Munch’s “The Scream” The First Modern Painting?
The Mona Lisa represents an impossible ideal—palpable, yet clearly beyond reach. The Scream, on the other hand, arguably speaks to a much more ancient, existential state, connecting...
Emojis — Scourge Of Communication Or Historically Meaningful?
Your own emoji habit might not extend beyond the occasional text message. But anyone who’s ever caught a whiff of the teen spirit surrounding,...
Maureen Dowd: Why Should Men Read Books? It’s Sexy!
The fiction gap makes me sad. A man staring into a phone is not sexy. But a man with a book has become so...
The Fight To Save Hawaiian Culture Lost In The Maui Fires
Nearly two years later, to drive around Lahaina town is to encounter ghost gas stations, mailboxes without houses and rogue bougainvillea enlivening piles of...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down After Republicans Zero Out Funding
CPB informed employees that the majority of staff positions will be eliminated with the close of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025. It...
Na’Zir McFadden talks about the role of an orchestra in community
Na’Zir McFadden, Assistant Conductor & Community Ambassador of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, talks about the role of the orchestra in community and the importance of mentorship.
How Do You Spot Text Written By AI Bots? It’s Not Just About The...
Many readers (especially on Reddit) think that the regular use of em dashes and relatively unusual vocabulary (“delves” or “crucial”) is a big sign...
Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment From History Museum Exhibit
“In reviewing our legacy content recently, it became clear that the ‘Limits of Presidential Power’ section in The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden exhibition needed to...
Dance And Science Have Been Intersecting For Around 200 Years Now
“The nineteenth century (was) this tumultuous period of emergence in the arts, sciences, in education, politically, culturally. … Something that came to the fore was...
Why Some Musicians Are Leaving Spotify
“It didn’t take us long to decide as a band that if Daniel Ek is going harder on AI warfare, we should get off...
The Fight To Preserve Monet’s Beloved Giverny Gardens
A week with this invisible group of virtuoso gardeners in their run-up to a new season reveals how, sitting at the intersection of art...
How Some Of Syria’s Cultural Heritage Was Secretly Saved
7,400 artefacts were smuggled into Rmelan from dozens of dig sites. The items have now come to light—literally—as the heritage NGOs responsible for Rmelan...
New York State’s $400M Broadway Tax Credit Has Already Run Out Of Money
“Tax credits ran out quickly this year, both due to demand, and as productions had been conditionally approved for the credit before the (law...
France Proposes New Law To Return Colonial Art
If approved, the law would make it easier for the country to return cultural goods in France's national collection "originating from states that, due...
Hawaiian Petroglyphs Re-emerge From Ocean
For the first time since that 2016 discovery, the full panel of petroglyphs has been exposed again after seasonal ocean swells swept away covering...
Celebrating 100 Years Of Art Deco
This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts),...
American Late-Night TV Isn’t Dead. Yet.
“But its future, which was never exactly bright, might be cratering. The hoary format’s downward slide has, up until this point, been comparatively slow,...
Defunding Public Media Is A Blow To Documentary-Making
Over the last five years, ITVS has directly invested $44 million of CPB funds in documentaries. In the same period, ITVS brought 126 films...
How A Museum’s Attempt To Solicit Americans For America’s 250th Birthday Got Complicated
I’ve led communications at nonprofits for decades and — with rare exceptions — subscribe to the “as long as they’re spelling our name right”...
How Closely Do We Need To Measure Progress?
If you want to make an accurate judgment of how progress is going, it seems intuitive that frequent monitoring would help. On the other...
Maybe You Can Get Famous Playing The Edinburgh Fringe, But You Sure Won’t Get...
“The sprawling festival, open to any act that can find a venue and pay a registration fee, will this year showcase over 3,000 acts.”...
